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1c0ced0f3SStefan Weil- SeaBIOS (bios.bin) is the successor of pc bios.
2c0ced0f3SStefan Weil  See http://www.seabios.org/ for more information.
3f5dc4c7cSaliguori
47f5d44e0Sbellard- The VGA BIOS and the Cirrus VGA BIOS come from the LGPL VGA bios
5c34ebfdcSAnthony Liguori  project (http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/).
6fa36761dSbellard
7fa36761dSbellard- The PowerPC Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS is
833d08439Sbellard  available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.
98d5f07faSbellard
100986ac3bSbellard- OpenBIOS (http://www.openbios.org/) is a free (GPL v2) portable
110986ac3bSbellard  firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
120986ac3bSbellard  1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
130bce98dfSBlue Swirl  The included images for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs),
149eb08a43SMark Cave-Ayland  Sparc32 (including QEMU,tcx.bin and QEMU,cgthree.bin) and Sparc64 are built
15*5264917bSMark Cave-Ayland  from OpenBIOS SVN revision 1280.
16eec85c2aSths
17a9f8ad8fSDavid Gibson- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
18a9f8ad8fSDavid Gibson  implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware.  The sources are at
194807ab4fSAlexey Kardashevskiy  https://github.com/aik/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
209d0e1dacSAlexey Kardashevskiy  built from git tag qemu-slof-20131015.
21a9f8ad8fSDavid Gibson
226329866fSPaolo Bonzini- sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
236329866fSPaolo Bonzini  legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as
246329866fSPaolo Bonzini  if a video card were attached.  The master sources reside in a subversion
256329866fSPaolo Bonzini  repository at http://sgabios.googlecode.com/svn/trunk.  A git mirror is
2685938981SStefan Hajnoczi  available at git://git.qemu-project.org/sgabios.git.
276329866fSPaolo Bonzini
2836d8d02dSAlex Williamson- The PXE roms come from the iPXE project. Built with BANNER_TIME 0.
2936d8d02dSAlex Williamson  Sources available at http://ipxe.org.  Vendor:Device ID -> ROM mapping:
3074b12befSAnthony Liguori
3136d8d02dSAlex Williamson	8086:100e -> pxe-e1000.rom
3236d8d02dSAlex Williamson	8086:1209 -> pxe-eepro100.rom
3336d8d02dSAlex Williamson	1050:0940 -> pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
3436d8d02dSAlex Williamson	1022:2000 -> pxe-pcnet.rom
3536d8d02dSAlex Williamson	10ec:8139 -> pxe-rtl8139.rom
3636d8d02dSAlex Williamson	1af4:1000 -> pxe-virtio.rom
37fe270d04SAlexander Graf
38fe270d04SAlexander Graf- The S390 zipl loader is an addition to the official IBM s390-tools
39fe270d04SAlexander Graf  package. That fork is maintained in its own git repository at:
40fe270d04SAlexander Graf  git://repo.or.cz/s390-tools.git
41753d11f2SRichard Henderson
42753d11f2SRichard Henderson- The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
43b957a1b0SRichard Henderson  git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git
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